What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel audiobook runs 20.5 hours unabridged, narrated by Dion Graham (about 13.7 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 20.5 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 41 days |
| 1 hour / day | 21 days |
| 2 hours / day | 11 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 14 days |
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What our data says
- At 20.5 hours, it runs longer than 97% of the 14,520 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Dion Graham
Dion Graham narrates 367 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 3,275 hours in all.
About as long, on the Literary Fiction shelf
305 Literary Fiction audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel is an audiobook by Dave Eggers: a 20.5-hour unabridged recording, read by Dion Graham, released March 21, 2013, on the Literary Fiction and Historical (Fiction) shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 20.5 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dion Graham
- Released
- March 21, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Literary Fiction, Historical (Fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781602832633
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel audiobook?
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel runs 20.5 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 13.7 hours.
Is the What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel audiobook free?
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Who narrates What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel?
What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel is narrated by Dion Graham.
Is What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng; A Novel worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 13.7 hours, saving 6.8 hours.